Why work? It's a question the Supreme Court will answer
© getty Can Wisconsin require that able-bodied and childless adults work, or engage in work-related activities, as a condition of receiving BadgerCare benefits? The U.S. Supreme Court likely will answer that question when it decides Azar v. Gresham later this term. The specific issue presented by that case might appear to be, at least initially, dry and technical: Whether a work requirement would “assist in promoting the objectives” of the Medicaid program. Just under the surface, however, is a contest between the richness of local character on the one hand, and on the other a crampe...